Wedding Invitations & Paper

when to send out invites?

Hello my fellow brides-

I have my invitations and they are all ready to be mailed out. My question to all you lovely ladies is when should I mail them out for our Wedding September 20, 2014. My wedding coordinator/planner said she needs numbers 3 weeks before our wedding, so I placed August 20th as the rsvp date. I have read so many different blogs and articles of when you should send them out. Some say 6-8 weeks before and the knot checklist says July 19th. I was thinking of possibly dropping them in the mail this weekend sometime to get a head start on receiving RSVP's back and also because for my shower I had to constantly send reminders out to people to rsvp just for the shower. 

Please Help! A bride in need of some good advice.

Lauren

Re: when to send out invites?

  • lem212 said:
    Hello my fellow brides-

    I have my invitations and they are all ready to be mailed out. My question to all you lovely ladies is when should I mail them out for our Wedding September 20, 2014. My wedding coordinator/planner said she needs numbers 3 weeks before our wedding, so I placed August 20th as the rsvp date. I have read so many different blogs and articles of when you should send them out. Some say 6-8 weeks before and the knot checklist says July 19th. I was thinking of possibly dropping them in the mail this weekend sometime to get a head start on receiving RSVP's back and also because for my shower I had to constantly send reminders out to people to rsvp just for the shower. 

    Please Help! A bride in need of some good advice.

    Lauren
    I would mail them no earlier than July 20th. 
  • July 20 is about 8 weeks before the wedding and that gives guests about 4 weeks to RSVP and you a week from there to chase down any outstanding responses before you turn in your head count 3 weeks before the wedding.  

    Sending them too early often means people put them aside and forget about them because they figure they have months to answer and then time flies.  
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  • Yeah I was gonna say get them out for about July 20th. My wedding is October 12th. I plan on sending mine August 9th and fgure everyone should get them by the 12th. Our RSVP date is Sep 12th.

     

  • I guess I sent mine out way early, but been getting a decent amount of replies back pretty much every day. I sent mine out July 9th, they were received by most the next day. That surprised me. I have an RSVP date of Aug. 29th, wedding is Oct. 4th, but I need a head count 3 weeks before for cake, 2 weeks for reception, and for our own good I gave an extra week to actually received the last minute ones.
    FI refuses to call after any one who doesn't respond back and is very adamant that I do not call after anyone as well. He doesn't get the importance of knowing who will be there or not, or not who but how many.
    This is against others as I now see. I was going to suggest no earlier then 12 weeks not later then 6 weeks out. The average I often see suggested is 6-8 weeks.
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  • lem212lem212 member
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    thanks I sent them out on the 16th of July so just a few days before our shower. we have gotten some back already so we shall see. I am hoping I don't have to make any calls or my FI family doesn't have to make any calls. thanks for all your responses :) 60 days to go!!!
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